My internship at General Electric Aviation

My internship at General Electric Aviation

Name:  Mariana Ontiveros Hometown: Weston, Florida What is your major? Mechanical engineering Where did you intern? What did you do there? General Electric Aviation in Norwich, New York. My position was as an engineering intern in the new product development sector....

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Keep video conferences safe from ‘Zoom-bombers’

Keep video conferences safe from ‘Zoom-bombers’

As the coronavirus forces the world to find new ways to carry on business as usual during safe-at-home executive orders, hackers too have a new pastime: “Zoom-bombing.” Making headlines across the globe in the last weeks, Zoom-bombing has millions of Zoomers (Zoom...

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Cybersecurity tips for remote working

Cybersecurity tips for remote working

Companies worldwide have instructed employees to work from home in order to practice social distancing and reduce the spread of COVID-19. Packing up an office and installing it at home can be stressful when trying to remain connected to networks, servers and emails...

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Ph.D. student blazing a trail for female engineers

Ph.D. student blazing a trail for female engineers

Armana S. Huq, a doctoral student in civil and transportation engineering at FIU and assistant professor at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), knows what it’s like to be a woman in the male-dominated field of engineering. According to the...

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Got my first job! Working as an engineering program manager

Got my first job! Working as an engineering program manager

In this series, grads share their journey to landing that first job out of college. After years of studying and working toward a degree, these Panthers’ hard work paid off. Now they’re paying it forward by letting you know how they did it. Name: Marcos A. Rodriguez...

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Dean Volakis Receives 2020 URSI Booker Gold Medal Award

Dean Volakis Receives 2020 URSI Booker Gold Medal Award

​Congratulations to John Volakis, dean of the College of Engineering & Computing, for becoming a URSI Fellow and receiving the 2020 URSI Booker Gold Medal Award for his citation, “Seminal contributions to electromagnetics, including small, ultra-wideband and...

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Researchers create new electric vehicle battery

Researchers create new electric vehicle battery

Researchers in the College of Engineering & Computing have strapped themselves into the driver’s seat and entered the fast-evolving world of electric vehicle batteries. Professor Bilal El-Zahab and his team have a patent pending on a high-density lithium model...

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